About the Authors

Melissa Robb

Current address: Marum and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Joanne K. Hobbs

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Shireen A. Woodiga

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sarah Shapiro-Ward

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Michael D. L. Suits

Current address: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Nicholas McGregor

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Harry Brumer

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hasan Yesilkaya

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Samantha J. King

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Alisdair B. Boraston

boraston@uvic.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ABB MR. Formal analysis: MR SSW MDLS HY SJK ABB. Funding acquisition: ABB. Investigation: MR JKH SAW SSW MDLS NM HY. Methodology: MR JKH NM HB HY SJK ABB. Supervision: HB SJK ABB. Visualization: MR JKH NM HB HY SJK ABB. Writing – original draft: MR JKH ABB. Writing – review & editing: JKH MDLS NM HB HY SJK ABB.